On the Axiomatic Assumption of God’s Perfection

Because reality exceeds human comprehension, I am free to hope that God is perfect. Accepting God’s perfection as the axiom through which I interpret reality reveals a universe of potentially valid meaning. The freedom that allows me to choose this axiom without denying reality makes all derivative meaning perfectly defensible.

Once I choose to hope in God’s perfection, my life – my thought, speech, and action – becomes the expression of this hope. The epistemological limit which prevents me from judging God frees my conscience from any possibility of guilt, thus enabling me to live out my hope with wholehearted integrity.

My adoption of this axiom enables me to write because it enables me to perceive the meaning of things. For example:

If God is perfect, then He is perfectly wise, powerful, and loving. It follows, then, that He knows all of the suffering that has ever been or will be, that He chooses to allow it, and that any other choice would be hateful.

Then I can ask, “How could this be true?” I have my solution before I begin. I know the answer to the question and need only back into the explanation.

I am free to hope in God’s perfection, and others are free to evaluate the consequences. Because this hope is the most beautiful possible assumption about reality, living out this hope with wholehearted integrity must produce the most beautiful possible life.

I will sometimes encounter difficulty. I will encounter things that seem so terrible that hoping in God’s perfection will appear repulsive to me – and yet my epistemological limits guarantee that I will remain free to do it anyways. I expect that responding to these difficulties with an even deeper commitment to hoping in God’s perfection will lead to deeper knowledge of God and great joy.